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it almost disappeared, bisbee but it was that time in america where vietnam, people wanted to go to a place the was kind of off the map so it kind of found its niche. the boom is because the copper that we are talking about never goes away. there will be copper in bisbee for ever. it's a cost market equation whether they want to go dig deeper, wider, with over the situation is. and the technology of copper mining is getting better so they can - 312 in bisbee. it gets bad but they knew had to do it in a way that saves them money so it is a constant cycle of boom and bust boom and it is even more pronounced if you go to the mining towns meaning the company towns. and in arizona we have company towns. it's rare to find a company in the united states anymore where they have everything, schools, the bar, hotels, the supermarket, the barbershop so every single person in the town is paid by the line. that is true in the biggest one in the united states is in arizona. it's a company town. and it's a very depressing place to go. maybe about 700,000 tons of copper a year so its huge. i don't kn
it almost disappeared, bisbee but it was that time in america where vietnam, people wanted to go to a place the was kind of off the map so it kind of found its niche. the boom is because the copper that we are talking about never goes away. there will be copper in bisbee for ever. it's a cost market equation whether they want to go dig deeper, wider, with over the situation is. and the technology of copper mining is getting better so they can - 312 in bisbee. it gets bad but they knew had to do...
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the constitution and its founders had great economies of kn as america's -- even the federal reserve is only 50 pages. even the commodity futures trading commission ct was ly 150a -f, h mp to regulate a commercial bank, is over 2000 pages. it is longer then the new testent, the kan a tld am esthtrryo peculiarly that the great legends religions of the world can run on moral presence and less ords than a current regulatory reform bill? econy of e,d nsn't have that is really very important. i don't see -- i'm off to snghai saturday and we are going to talk abousome of the exchanges outthere that emonntr nc futures. they have tremendous interest in the financial futures. the chinese are interested in expandin th are also intested in exndinonbantal wag.itob the united states is said, get rid of it, we have no adjusting climate change. yet china will have seven separate markets in the next year or two. india willhaveth. ilihaon reek the korean parliament by a margin of 98% approved a market-based solution to global warming and two weeks vim tea trial balloon for cap-and-trade and yet we do
the constitution and its founders had great economies of kn as america's -- even the federal reserve is only 50 pages. even the commodity futures trading commission ct was ly 150a -f, h mp to regulate a commercial bank, is over 2000 pages. it is longer then the new testent, the kan a tld am esthtrryo peculiarly that the great legends religions of the world can run on moral presence and less ords than a current regulatory reform bill? econy of e,d nsn't have that is really very important. i...
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radios, bicycles, clocks and a comment america and could not purchase. they were all used in the war effort. . . it really redlich nonfiction in places, which i'm sure as a writer you encounter some of that feeling as well and i know it's a report was. lets kind of start there. y. exxonmobil? how did you come to the subject? i know you said getty oil previous in your career but why this company and how did it differ from some of your other subjects like the bin laden's? >> guest: it's interesting, to me ernie. i started out as a business reporter on wall street when i was very young and that i won abroad and worked more in international subjects and after 9/11 i wrote about the origins of the 9/11 attacks and the 20 years of american covert policy in afghanistan and this book goes towards that end after that was over i thought you know i want to keep writing about america and the world after 9/11, this sort of asymmetric, strange groping that we had as a country to understand what the attacks were about and what they meant to the united states, what the
radios, bicycles, clocks and a comment america and could not purchase. they were all used in the war effort. . . it really redlich nonfiction in places, which i'm sure as a writer you encounter some of that feeling as well and i know it's a report was. lets kind of start there. y. exxonmobil? how did you come to the subject? i know you said getty oil previous in your career but why this company and how did it differ from some of your other subjects like the bin laden's? >> guest: it's...
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government when show talks about soft power he's talking about america and our culture and everything we bring whether its private sector such as the media or the entertainment world or books and publishers and bookstores the social media i talked about all aspects of america held we think that is at the time if it's a strategic level and project ito these areas we have secured or areas we've been at risk i would like to see some strategic framework and i don't see that now. again i think it would be in part a local solution when our friends and potential allies aim somalia might be totally different in indonesia and that requires not just intelligence from the the but an empathetic understanding. and that way we know how to project power matter whether it is hard or soft or is recently referred to smart power which is a combination of both. if you haven't read his work, i would encourage it. also note that there are a couple of great examples of where that has worked. columbia, very successful counter insurgency. not eliminated yet close to be a southeast asia, the 2002 bombings are
government when show talks about soft power he's talking about america and our culture and everything we bring whether its private sector such as the media or the entertainment world or books and publishers and bookstores the social media i talked about all aspects of america held we think that is at the time if it's a strategic level and project ito these areas we have secured or areas we've been at risk i would like to see some strategic framework and i don't see that now. again i think it...
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but only in america do we have -- exxonmobil is our state-owned oil company. they're a much more coherent expression of our national energy policy than anything the federal government does, that's for sure. and they're just as powerful relative to the state as toal is to france and maybe even more so. and yet only in america would we have a state oil company that lives in opposition to the state in which it resides. i mean, rex tillerson recently told scouting magazine that his favorite book is atlas shrugged by ayn rand, that's sort of touched on for libertarians, and it suggests an attitude of sort of skepticism let's say generously toward the government that is we call off-- peculiar. now, the equivalent country in france, italy or britain, they would have all gone to the same universities as the president of the united states, they would be buddies, there would be an interlocking sense of world view and maybe even as with totale, they would work arm in arm with the french government abroad in order to secure totale's interests and so forth. but, you know,
but only in america do we have -- exxonmobil is our state-owned oil company. they're a much more coherent expression of our national energy policy than anything the federal government does, that's for sure. and they're just as powerful relative to the state as toal is to france and maybe even more so. and yet only in america would we have a state oil company that lives in opposition to the state in which it resides. i mean, rex tillerson recently told scouting magazine that his favorite book is...
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and the danger that is america now wouldn't be facing decline. america would be facing collapse. so again, one thing for a rich country to spend irresponsibly rack up the credit card, but any responsible person can see you reaching the point where someone will come and take away your car and furniture mtv in-house. so why would you keep spending in that way, even when you're approaching the point? what possible logic could that have? anemone look on the international scene, you see some extremely troubling developments that are equally mysterious. obama says we have to prevent genocide and uses force against libya. a number of people killed by gadhafi at that point was about 250. meanwhile, over a period of any month, tens of thousands of people have been killed in syria and obama absolutely refuses to use force. what explains what he intervenes before us over here, but not over there? obama has been active in egypt and pushing on the power. not only that, but now that there's a power struggle going on in the military. the obama administration is intervening on the side and that'
and the danger that is america now wouldn't be facing decline. america would be facing collapse. so again, one thing for a rich country to spend irresponsibly rack up the credit card, but any responsible person can see you reaching the point where someone will come and take away your car and furniture mtv in-house. so why would you keep spending in that way, even when you're approaching the point? what possible logic could that have? anemone look on the international scene, you see some...
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negative stereotypes that they see or at least confining stereotypes of what it means to be a black man in america. as a consequence of those things, i went in a whole negative direction that lasted throughout most of my teenage years. and what the book discusses then is how did i pull myself out of it, and it ended up being a matter of me recognizing that the struggles that i was going through internally to reconcile a divided heritage, to reconcile the different strands of my past, could only be done if i linked my story up with a larger story. the story of struggle taking place here in the united states with african americans, the struggle that's taking place overseas with the millions of people who are impoverished and don't have opportunity. and that's part of what led me directly into the kmuncht organizing work that i did, the civil rights work that i did, and ultimately into the politics that i'm still engaged in. and so in some ways, the themes of this book are very much the project of my life right now. which is to figure out how in fact can we live together as one people effectively, an
negative stereotypes that they see or at least confining stereotypes of what it means to be a black man in america. as a consequence of those things, i went in a whole negative direction that lasted throughout most of my teenage years. and what the book discusses then is how did i pull myself out of it, and it ended up being a matter of me recognizing that the struggles that i was going through internally to reconcile a divided heritage, to reconcile the different strands of my past, could only...
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and recovery in the united states of america. and now, in terms of directions as i said, we are also seeing some effects on a global basis. slow down in emerging markets. that is a recent development. great concern in low income countries about rising food prices and volatile commodity prices. and finally, growing frustrations in the middle east. at the same time, many of the big legacies from the crisis risk becoming more entrenched. now what am i thinking about that could be entrenched? clearly, unemployment and a massive human cost of people being away from the job market for so long that their skills, their training, their background was forgotten and that is particularly true as the young people in those countries where growth is too slow, too low to accommodate joining the job market. i'm also thinking about the lasting burden of high public debt, now what levels rarely seen except in terms of war. for many economies in the present circumstance is, it will take years of fiscal adjustments to get back to precrisis levels. an
and recovery in the united states of america. and now, in terms of directions as i said, we are also seeing some effects on a global basis. slow down in emerging markets. that is a recent development. great concern in low income countries about rising food prices and volatile commodity prices. and finally, growing frustrations in the middle east. at the same time, many of the big legacies from the crisis risk becoming more entrenched. now what am i thinking about that could be entrenched?...
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here at book expo america annual convention in new york city. we are joined by crack who is chairman and president of the norton company. we want to ask you about some of the books that norton has coming out this fall 2012, and i'm going to start with this one. >> david qualm's book "spillover" a scary book about a important subject. this is what happens humans are moving deeper and deeper into the interlands and as they do so we're getting a lot more animal diseases that are being transportedded over to the human population. it's not just aids and czars anymore, it's other kinds of diseases you haven't heard of it. david has been out studying around the world. bats, monkeys, gorillas. he's a wonderful writer. his other book did great. it's going to be an exciting book for us. >> is it happening in the u.s. or other nations mainly? >> this is world-wide problem. with the transit of people around the world now, you know diseases move very quickly. >> also wanted to ask you about the "last refuge" another book that is coming out by gregory johnson
here at book expo america annual convention in new york city. we are joined by crack who is chairman and president of the norton company. we want to ask you about some of the books that norton has coming out this fall 2012, and i'm going to start with this one. >> david qualm's book "spillover" a scary book about a important subject. this is what happens humans are moving deeper and deeper into the interlands and as they do so we're getting a lot more animal diseases that are...
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africa and latin america these places want to replicate but the numbers don't add up. we need another five planets like this one without human beings. it won't happen. is a failed economic model. we must realize that and we must change it. this economic model is one based on something else that is new in history. if you look back a few hundred years at global geopolitics you look at a place where an earth driven by religious organizations and later country's bleaker still governments took control. some were totalitarian and some were democracies. now a time when the big corporations have taken control. this is a new year and the big corporations are calling the shots. no politician gets elected to a major post in the united states or other democracies without huge amounts of corporate financing and support. obama made that clear to us. even if a politician were to get elected. say ron paul doesn't take any money from big corporations, it is a long shot but let's assume that happened. he still has to face a congress filled with people at the mercy of big corporations. h
africa and latin america these places want to replicate but the numbers don't add up. we need another five planets like this one without human beings. it won't happen. is a failed economic model. we must realize that and we must change it. this economic model is one based on something else that is new in history. if you look back a few hundred years at global geopolitics you look at a place where an earth driven by religious organizations and later country's bleaker still governments took...
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cod dam america himself. the people who obama's sought as a surrogate father from chapter and first of the anti-colonial ideology. what was the ideology? the key to understanding anti-colonialism is the product of theft. how owed to the rich countries become rich? why do people live better in britain, germany and america rather than the by india or the jakarta? the west innovated and took their stuff. although the view was not burned not of initiative but basically the results of piracy. in 19650 barack obama sr. roach an article which is a country do with the rich at the top? one solution is a high tax rate. theoretically nothing can stop the government from taxing 100% of it come. anyone familiar with economics would say why would anybody proposed that? but it makes sense with the anti-colonial idea. if you stole my furniture what is the tax rate for you? one hundred%. if it is appropriated then there is nothing wrong with the government to take a back. passport now to obama's comments. you did not build th
cod dam america himself. the people who obama's sought as a surrogate father from chapter and first of the anti-colonial ideology. what was the ideology? the key to understanding anti-colonialism is the product of theft. how owed to the rich countries become rich? why do people live better in britain, germany and america rather than the by india or the jakarta? the west innovated and took their stuff. although the view was not burned not of initiative but basically the results of piracy. in...
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you have a situation -- [inaudible] on the one hand we're not as productive in america and the races are not as low as china or india. the guys in the middle get screwed. [inaudible] the blacks have been left behind. they are at 2,000 a year. and the blacks as of now 17 years of agency. and then they were -- [inaudible] he turned puce and said i don't want to think about it. the truth is that productivity in some of the low range countries. >> i'm not sure i buy that. i have a question. what about argue argentina they suggested they're not doing so bad. look at the growth record over the past or so years and the people who actually criticize argue teen that for the policy are practices bad economics or just bad journalism. some of us, of course, have been criticizing their policies for a long time and suggesting this this can't go on. what's your view on that? it's too small to -- [inaudible] it's going off the cliff, you know, become a economy. who cares about it. [inaudible] they are a bad economic virture because -- [inaudible] how about inflation as well. the growth rates are beg
you have a situation -- [inaudible] on the one hand we're not as productive in america and the races are not as low as china or india. the guys in the middle get screwed. [inaudible] the blacks have been left behind. they are at 2,000 a year. and the blacks as of now 17 years of agency. and then they were -- [inaudible] he turned puce and said i don't want to think about it. the truth is that productivity in some of the low range countries. >> i'm not sure i buy that. i have a question....
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that a decade ago when we had to sell e americaing markets. nobody was going to listen to us. everything was cheap and the place appeared to be a mess. and now a decade later, any sort of country with an emerging america market had a hype around it. that's when i decided to write the book. the idea of the book was that if you look at economic history, you dis-- nearly 40% of the global market. you can't treat them asen entity. the differences are incredible. the countries in africa a per-capita-income with $1,000. you have large economies like india with -- [inaudible] and you have korea with income of $20,000 plus. in the middle you have a bunch of countries like brazil, mexico, turkey, russia with a per per-capita-income. and china things have changed dramatically. the per-capita-income is $6 ,000. if you look at economic history, typical when countries get to the income level, [inaudible] evaluation it tends to slow down. in china's case, china exactly what japan was the 1970s in terms of economic development of korea and taiwan was subsequent in the 1980s and 1909s. to me
that a decade ago when we had to sell e americaing markets. nobody was going to listen to us. everything was cheap and the place appeared to be a mess. and now a decade later, any sort of country with an emerging america market had a hype around it. that's when i decided to write the book. the idea of the book was that if you look at economic history, you dis-- nearly 40% of the global market. you can't treat them asen entity. the differences are incredible. the countries in africa a...
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to bring russia closer to america fundamentally. it would make canada significant you have shale guest, the tar sand and the hydropower resources with open arctic it would be that much more significant. >> i would like to offer a quick comment. to go through another level off from the decade. but with the change with syria. but to on burden of responsibility, which countries do you envision south america, africa, you wrote about india obviously. in to be applied in and share our objectives? >> interesting brazil has carved out the identity. they always have trouble making arrangements to do missions of brazil. they are more standoffish. because of geography in west africa over the force of a decade so brazil would not be cost file to the united states but it would be independent with its own point* of view. says that may lead to argentina and develop their balance against brazil. it is strategic about the united states has gotten since the cold wear to asia -- from the rise of the cold war. it has been over hyped but within ds 2012
to bring russia closer to america fundamentally. it would make canada significant you have shale guest, the tar sand and the hydropower resources with open arctic it would be that much more significant. >> i would like to offer a quick comment. to go through another level off from the decade. but with the change with syria. but to on burden of responsibility, which countries do you envision south america, africa, you wrote about india obviously. in to be applied in and share our...
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that america is not a force of freedom but america is a force of exploitation. if you look at the jewel movement of obama's policies, they are linked. what is he doing? domestically he is expanding the power of the state. internationally he is shrinking or contract thing power of the united states. he is expanding state power locally and reducing american power in the world. why would obama support oil-drilling abroad? but not here? nothing to do with environmentalism. i don't think obama cares if the earth is getting hotter or colder. he doesn't know. he doesn't care. what he is attempting is global energy redistribution. he is trying to make sure the previously colonized countries have more energy to grow faster and putting the cents on the colonize the which is to say us. why is obama promiscuously spending money as if the deficit didn't matter? obvious the republicans didn't have congress he would have spent a lot more. the reason he is doing and i believe is because he's using the dead has a way to settle america's colonial debt. the idea here is that ameri
that america is not a force of freedom but america is a force of exploitation. if you look at the jewel movement of obama's policies, they are linked. what is he doing? domestically he is expanding the power of the state. internationally he is shrinking or contract thing power of the united states. he is expanding state power locally and reducing american power in the world. why would obama support oil-drilling abroad? but not here? nothing to do with environmentalism. i don't think obama cares...
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that is not the america we believe in. just under under investing and lack of prioritizing, under investing and lack of priority will cripple our education system. that's why we as mayors want to be a part of the solution the president has been far and above one of the key leaders on these issues. we want to prioritize early education, which and all know is very important for our students. we want to reform k12. we got to increase graduation rates. we want to improve our access to higher education by ensuring college affordability and completion, pell grant. we want to expand and improve on community college system. our community college system is so important when it comes to training and career tryouts for young people. we want to create a skilled workforce. the last thing i'll say on education is, there's policy that's also very important. we're in lock step with the president from a bipartisan support and secretary duncan. we believe very strongly that we need to re-authorize e.s.c.a. we want the federal government to
that is not the america we believe in. just under under investing and lack of prioritizing, under investing and lack of priority will cripple our education system. that's why we as mayors want to be a part of the solution the president has been far and above one of the key leaders on these issues. we want to prioritize early education, which and all know is very important for our students. we want to reform k12. we got to increase graduation rates. we want to improve our access to higher...
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we know of is that because different talks and america. wikileaks in china strikes me is the kind of thing you have execution income you could easily have a military coup. it actually was transparent about how billionaires engaging each other at the top of the chinese party system. i don't know what the likeliest, so i went to the guys writing this new book on technology and she is security. i read the first draft. it's not quite there. so i asked jerry. i see jerry, is this a plausible scenario? he said wang? on the site i don't know. probably not over 50%. it's definitely going to happen at some point. >> a week of internal decision-making and communication by the elites? >> we are talking about a force incidents that transparent the documents that describe the relationships in out of highest level communist party officials. if there were anything in the world to really worry me right now, it would be that. >> don't you think were having a glimpse of that quick >> bush last time he and this guy who was out there chest bumping and how did
we know of is that because different talks and america. wikileaks in china strikes me is the kind of thing you have execution income you could easily have a military coup. it actually was transparent about how billionaires engaging each other at the top of the chinese party system. i don't know what the likeliest, so i went to the guys writing this new book on technology and she is security. i read the first draft. it's not quite there. so i asked jerry. i see jerry, is this a plausible...
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so a reason why for america is on top. i heard a discussion back years ago. american and a guy from singapore. he said, you guys are in decline . we're all going to overtake you. the american turned back and said, we will win because our asians will beat your rations. there is no other country where this statement could have been made. that, i think, is the u.s. advantage and what will keep the u.s. on top. the geopolitical thing, an area in very serious trouble, the eurozone. fundamentally a very bad idea. they put so much political capital into it, along, difficult, painful thing. europe, up the creek for quite some time. >> well, time will tell whether your predictions come true or not. some of us will try to remember. i am afraid we have run out of time. please help me in thanking both of our speakers. >> every weekend book tv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> so, my history of financial institutions is a history of learning about these things. so, for example, in 1811 new york, the state
so a reason why for america is on top. i heard a discussion back years ago. american and a guy from singapore. he said, you guys are in decline . we're all going to overtake you. the american turned back and said, we will win because our asians will beat your rations. there is no other country where this statement could have been made. that, i think, is the u.s. advantage and what will keep the u.s. on top. the geopolitical thing, an area in very serious trouble, the eurozone. fundamentally a...
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and central america but the reach goes to centl african year. and nonstate actor. e mathxas. tlsnrss, npts, clergy, media, private companies like the tattered cover, this boostor thabthvabang isbalsc we kibootet 's infghanistan, after our efforts immediately preceding 9/11 inani, in ckona ezet mo portt weada fight was not a nation-state. it was not nato. af tl eratdtateaors, os ug tou. e liti malaar thewod. but they are variable is global battlefield. i talked about thatngle errai aae im udincrse. aeoumiou adversaries, they can plot and plan on one side of the world and execute on the other in days, urs or in cyberspace we are talkingsends. iu te e po t gngof tat, thl complex, fragile global battlefield if you will, the emergence and convergence of ose ares he ner eni thiy macic son inouha e ris tre? who are our enemies? how do we define them? how do we find them? ene then ce we d h do esrutith meant for intelligence collectors a analysis, to inform policymakers and other consumers of intelligence so they can make tht her deon pre,e neeon juhe. alur allies. than to give you a
and central america but the reach goes to centl african year. and nonstate actor. e mathxas. tlsnrss, npts, clergy, media, private companies like the tattered cover, this boostor thabthvabang isbalsc we kibootet 's infghanistan, after our efforts immediately preceding 9/11 inani, in ckona ezet mo portt weada fight was not a nation-state. it was not nato. af tl eratdtateaors, os ug tou. e liti malaar thewod. but they are variable is global battlefield. i talked about thatngle errai aae im...
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for outlandish claims about why we were entitled to support murder ous terrorist regimes in central america leaving a couple hundred thousand corpses and much worse thanks to our involvement, and so the argument was well, they are supported by cuba, so it must be a terrorist state, fab bring cation, but it doesn't -- fabrication, but it doesn't matter in these cases. however, cuba was a good choice. in the proceeding years, cuba was the target of more international terrorism than probably the rest of the world combined. a lot of it coming from right here, so, therefore, cuba went into the terrorist list, and saddam was taken off, and so we could support his major crimes, which were coming. well, these ought to -- we ought to think about why we even tolerate the concept of a terrorism list. if the government says you're on the terrorism list, period, end of discussion, but now if you give legal advice or other advice to whoever they designate, you're a criminal, and if you're a 15-year-old child allegedly picking up a gun that's under attack by u.s. soldiers, you're sent off for 16 years of
for outlandish claims about why we were entitled to support murder ous terrorist regimes in central america leaving a couple hundred thousand corpses and much worse thanks to our involvement, and so the argument was well, they are supported by cuba, so it must be a terrorist state, fab bring cation, but it doesn't -- fabrication, but it doesn't matter in these cases. however, cuba was a good choice. in the proceeding years, cuba was the target of more international terrorism than probably the...
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everyone in the region as people in the united states and also around the world appreciate that america has never been outstanding for avoiding domestic problems and domestic missteps. our unique capability has been making the adjustments necessary to confront domestic crises, resolve the crisis, and emerge stronger than we were before. because the justice we made is the nature of our system to be able to do that unusually well. the big question is if we have lost that capability, whether it has eroded or not. or when we get it back, bounce back, in which case everything he's trying to do on asia is perfectly credible. so we conclude sank effectively this whole book is about foreign policy, rightly so, but let's not forget at the end of the day, you can't have a robust strategic foreign policy and much of domestic credibility and your domestic house in order. >> the chapter also talks about, i think it's critical, the administration of these explicit into a kind of feedback loop where the chinese are worried about the united states trying to him them in. the administration is worried ab
everyone in the region as people in the united states and also around the world appreciate that america has never been outstanding for avoiding domestic problems and domestic missteps. our unique capability has been making the adjustments necessary to confront domestic crises, resolve the crisis, and emerge stronger than we were before. because the justice we made is the nature of our system to be able to do that unusually well. the big question is if we have lost that capability, whether it...
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and we have a tendency sometimes in america to took more people before they are ready. and then to make them once they are there, but ultimately, a kind of ruthlessness in regards to their character as well. i think this is going to be a very momentous year and i think this is going to be a year in which next year will be very difficult. and we really need to examine the entitlement state and the nature of the american political level. while we may be war abroad, we are changing things abroad. i think the world is going to look very different. warriors from now than it does today. >> host: you said that there are some key areas where americans need to make some key progress. where will we be? >> guest: i see a sizable number of undecided people. "a-team" 9% of people are undecided. 7% of those are for gary johnson. [laughter] ultimately, though, i think this is another carter presidency. obama is not a visionary or competent leader. he is really miscast and there is a tragic element all of this. >> host: has this both given you an idea for another book? >> guest: not at
and we have a tendency sometimes in america to took more people before they are ready. and then to make them once they are there, but ultimately, a kind of ruthlessness in regards to their character as well. i think this is going to be a very momentous year and i think this is going to be a year in which next year will be very difficult. and we really need to examine the entitlement state and the nature of the american political level. while we may be war abroad, we are changing things abroad....
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the arab spring has created these new opportunities for america, and perils for america to engage in a different way with the peoples of at least the middle east, and north africa. and to your point, i think there is some reticence to get too out in front for fear that our prior reputation will undermine legitimate voices in the region that are pushing for change. on the other hand you're also seeing a great deal of disillusionment within the region about our reluctance to move more boldly, on -- syria being the most recent example, where it's felt that america -- an american presence -- talk about returning to american values -- is turning a blind eye or at least not doing enough to counter what is a tyrant turning on his own people and killing them. >> have you detected any differences on those policies between the obama and romney campaigns? or their rhetoric? >> well you know, interestingly, as someone who cares deeply about what is happening in sirra, i kind of wish l -- what is happening in syria, i wish both campaigns were talking more about this, because it is an issue. if th
the arab spring has created these new opportunities for america, and perils for america to engage in a different way with the peoples of at least the middle east, and north africa. and to your point, i think there is some reticence to get too out in front for fear that our prior reputation will undermine legitimate voices in the region that are pushing for change. on the other hand you're also seeing a great deal of disillusionment within the region about our reluctance to move more boldly, on...
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we're america for god's sake. we can do this, and up stead, you know, we find ourselves in these small petty games arguing back and forth over issues that really don't translate to much to somebody who's out of work. >> host: let's take the calls and talk about the tax debate over the extension of the so-called bush tax cuts. hearing first from carl a republican in west virginia. good morning, carl, you're on for congressman larson. >> caller: yes, sir. what i'd like to say is that, you know, we have half the country draw a check from the government, and the other half works to pay for these people's livelihood. how long can we survive at that rate, and we're coming to the point where there's no incentive for people to get out and get a job because they know the government will be there for them. you know, i worked until i was 72 years old, worked a job, and i look around me now, and i see my neighbors in their 40s and 50s applying for disability, social security, and you know they are not disabled, and a good law
we're america for god's sake. we can do this, and up stead, you know, we find ourselves in these small petty games arguing back and forth over issues that really don't translate to much to somebody who's out of work. >> host: let's take the calls and talk about the tax debate over the extension of the so-called bush tax cuts. hearing first from carl a republican in west virginia. good morning, carl, you're on for congressman larson. >> caller: yes, sir. what i'd like to say is that,...
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america, russia, america know, russian yes. my question. please tell someone about israel, a country which exists despite geography. >> russia and america have completely different geographical perspectives and different geographical situations so that their interests are different and often clash but we have to recognize that we don't have as hard and ideological disagreements with russia today as we did during the soviet union. there is still a philosophical difference because of the way russia is governed and the way we are governed but it is not nearly as distant as it was during the cold war. we should think of ways we can employ russia as a balancer in many parts of eurasia. as i mentioned in the book is real a exists in defiance of history because for thousands of years -- and let me say this about israel's geography. and to jerusalem. it is a singular urban corridor. with the size of new jersey. of country like that cannot absorb one nuclear strike. even during the cold war there were cynical calculations. the u.s. would go on as a
america, russia, america know, russian yes. my question. please tell someone about israel, a country which exists despite geography. >> russia and america have completely different geographical perspectives and different geographical situations so that their interests are different and often clash but we have to recognize that we don't have as hard and ideological disagreements with russia today as we did during the soviet union. there is still a philosophical difference because of the...
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do you share that vision of america in and what would you do as senator allen about the 47%? allen: the best indicator of what somebody will do in the future is their record in the past. my view is the best social program of all is a job. they're taking care of themselves and providing for their families. as governor, i worked with the democrat majority in the legislature, we cut taxes, made virginia much more business-friendly and more than 300,000 net new jobs were created in the private sector. one of the other great successes we had while i was governor was welfare reform. we wanted to promote the work ethic and lift people out of poverty and have the dignity of a job. i remember here in fairfax county having a press conference where we had a competition between domino's pizza and pizza hut on who could hire the most folks on. we had the press conference, and a reporter somewhat insulted a woman, and he said something to the effect that, well, what kind of job is this, making pizzas? well, the owner of that franchise said how do you think i started? i started delivering p
do you share that vision of america in and what would you do as senator allen about the 47%? allen: the best indicator of what somebody will do in the future is their record in the past. my view is the best social program of all is a job. they're taking care of themselves and providing for their families. as governor, i worked with the democrat majority in the legislature, we cut taxes, made virginia much more business-friendly and more than 300,000 net new jobs were created in the private...
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students come from all over the world toer study here because ts america, is a america and they know that there is something special about america, and we love this book r and wrote it because we want to try to make sure that anstudents from all over the world and people and entrepreneurs and willgrants from all over the world will continue to come here. that this will remain a specialm place. course, >> tom friedman is "the new york times" columnists, pulitzer puize winner, three times? >> and how did you to team up? >> g >> we are old friends and neighbors. and for many days, we call each other and we talk about thebout world. but i did not notice something in recent w years.amer we would end everyday talking about america. it became apparent to us that te america has faced future vigor and vitality, that's how he came to write this book together. >> the name of the book is "than used to be us." our first call is ralph in evanston, illinois.r: >> yes, god bless us all. county our country, in major ways, ands health health care to use alternative therapy, which 99% or less, and tota
students come from all over the world toer study here because ts america, is a america and they know that there is something special about america, and we love this book r and wrote it because we want to try to make sure that anstudents from all over the world and people and entrepreneurs and willgrants from all over the world will continue to come here. that this will remain a specialm place. course, >> tom friedman is "the new york times" columnists, pulitzer puize winner,...
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this was part of the national security conference hosted by the world affairs council of america. it's 45 minutes. [applause] it's a great pleasure to be here with such a great panel. 3g ambassadors and one globally renowned journalist and scholars. so, i've been told that there have been a lot of questions about pakistan and afghanistan so far in your proceedings, and i think we have a first-rate panel to start dealing with them. what i'm going to do in terms of focusing that discussion is i am going to tee off with questions to each of the panelists. one to each and then i will allow for a little bit of fallout and then i will open the floor to you so you have a little more time to engage with them. but the end debate could begin with the ambassador munter her you already got his biography that is i think in some ways almost uniquely positioned to provide us a very recent perspective on what pakistan looks like to the united states to the official american advisers and diplomats and also has lifted the u.s. pakistan relationship during what was an exceedingly difficult and tryin
this was part of the national security conference hosted by the world affairs council of america. it's 45 minutes. [applause] it's a great pleasure to be here with such a great panel. 3g ambassadors and one globally renowned journalist and scholars. so, i've been told that there have been a lot of questions about pakistan and afghanistan so far in your proceedings, and i think we have a first-rate panel to start dealing with them. what i'm going to do in terms of focusing that discussion is i...
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government , he's talking about america and our culture. everything that we bring, whether it is private sector such as media or entertainment world how do we think about this at its strategic level and project into these areas that we have secured, areas that may be at risk? i would like to see some strategic framework, and i don't see that now. again, i think it should be in part a local solution because what our friends and potential allies in somalia need might be totally different in indonesia which requires not just intelligence and data, but empathetic and sending. that is how we know how to protect our power better. a combination of both. so if you have not read his work, i would encourage it. and i should also note that there are a couple of great examples of where that has worked. columbia, very successful counter insurgency. not eliminated yet, but close. al qaeda -- al-qaeda, great progress. very positive examples of how we took our power, soft power, education being a big piece of that, and put it together in concert with our a
government , he's talking about america and our culture. everything that we bring, whether it is private sector such as media or entertainment world how do we think about this at its strategic level and project into these areas that we have secured, areas that may be at risk? i would like to see some strategic framework, and i don't see that now. again, i think it should be in part a local solution because what our friends and potential allies in somalia need might be totally different in...
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america must be restored to her proper role in the world. but we can do that only through the recovery of confidence in ourselves. >> a year ago the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan melted down after an earthquake and tsunami hit northern japan. tomorrow the senate environment and public works committee looks at the safety of nuclear reactors in the u.s. you can see the hearing live on c-span at 10:00 a.m. on thursday. and then at 1:00 p.m. eastern, the defense and foreign policy analysts discuss the u.s. national security interests around the globe and the role of national security issues in the 2012 presidential elections. that's also live on c-span. >> one of president obama's top economic advisors said on wednesday the president has been quote, bold and aggressive on the economy. at an economic conference in washington gene sperling called on congress to pass the president's job creation legislation. [applause] >> gene, as many of you know has been at the center of democratic policy-making and politics for more than 20 years now an
america must be restored to her proper role in the world. but we can do that only through the recovery of confidence in ourselves. >> a year ago the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan melted down after an earthquake and tsunami hit northern japan. tomorrow the senate environment and public works committee looks at the safety of nuclear reactors in the u.s. you can see the hearing live on c-span at 10:00 a.m. on thursday. and then at 1:00 p.m. eastern, the defense and foreign policy...
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dead man walking, i wonder who will get the americas saidonde another. suddenly someone startedeone clapping. it was mulally. that is great visibility, helit. beamed. who could helplp him with this?i he raised his hands and said he would send some of his experts s right away.y to tony brown, the vice president e said hesi wdeould contact all ot relevant suppliers and askedhe them to check their compliance.e now we are getting somewhere, he thought. he would later call the meeting the defining moment in ford'sur. turnaround.lways he believed he could save thed ford motor company. now she knew heno would. all he needed was a plan and asn plan teople know he put the plan together on a card and it was really simple. it was aggressively restructured tot profitably operate profitaby at the current demand accelerates the development of rtisan trucks that people are actually want ..how t and how they were able to use this crisis without taking it to the bailout without going and asking washington to fix their problems for them, doing it themselves their old-fash
dead man walking, i wonder who will get the americas saidonde another. suddenly someone startedeone clapping. it was mulally. that is great visibility, helit. beamed. who could helplp him with this?i he raised his hands and said he would send some of his experts s right away.y to tony brown, the vice president e said hesi wdeould contact all ot relevant suppliers and askedhe them to check their compliance.e now we are getting somewhere, he thought. he would later call the meeting the defining...
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it would break up america's economic progress and so forth. there was a visceral reaction to kyoto that exxonmobil had that was out of line with the business interest. i would understand if you were a coal company and you see them coming and a price of carbon. it could be extent sal. but the oil industrial because of the mix of gas which is a lower footprint, they had an opportunity to adapt to this in a more forward leading way. frankly, the european companies saw that and publishes were already there and they moved with much more indepthness i thought. >> host: another idea i found interesting in the book you raise it a couple of times at least twice they remember. you're in the hearing it at all in washington when you talk about gasoline prices is regulating gasoline prices like we do to push electric and we want the lights on. it's a public right and how we regulate that. if it got out of control and prices price seared --s are high. why aren't we hearing it more when if comes to gas and should we be hearing it more as a solution the gover
it would break up america's economic progress and so forth. there was a visceral reaction to kyoto that exxonmobil had that was out of line with the business interest. i would understand if you were a coal company and you see them coming and a price of carbon. it could be extent sal. but the oil industrial because of the mix of gas which is a lower footprint, they had an opportunity to adapt to this in a more forward leading way. frankly, the european companies saw that and publishes were...
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hug the outside being foreig n'patirl e utide b-t domestic policy as long america is involved in war. and preferly drones are okay but hand to hand combat better. as long as the oreo people u em ng rtog ouit the innovation of iraq a ot of the neo cons stepping back saying don't blame us. the id was perfely sound. it was the execution. war isupposed to go rfy. gee senses he's in the right place. in the lobby of the icc institute for conflict, it is a quote by barry golde teis t defense of liberty is no vice. i've come to the right place. together they perfect this this ogramming, if you call. and theyplnt a os a rumor the chinese are trying to assassinate the dolly lam ma. he's become convinced this the dally llama americansare about inhi and angel is skeptical. she says what are we offering by away of evidence for bird says who needs evidence when you have the internet she's stilla little skeptical. wpon ce a epoeathe eventing news. he shrugs, okay, one o two details to be worked out. but, you know, he -- i've done the research and he is the one thing having to do with china that aric
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force to gain control of the persian gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the united states of america in such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force. this message was aimed primarily at the soviet union. this restatement of previous and more general warnings by truman and nixon, started wheels turning in washington and elsewhere. in fact, the time the u.s. had scant military capability in the region. and it recently begun strategizing about potential middle east contingencies. establish a task force was directed to focus on the area with the aim of ensuring stability and commerce. a few years later under president reagan, that reservation was upgraded to full combatant status as the united states central command. the high-level military attention that continues today was institutionalized man. u.s. forces, again, primarily marathon, began spending more time particularly in the gulf. with both wrong in iraq as they jockey for advantage. throughout the 1980s. relations between the u.s. and around were contentious, setting the stage for what has beco
force to gain control of the persian gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the united states of america in such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force. this message was aimed primarily at the soviet union. this restatement of previous and more general warnings by truman and nixon, started wheels turning in washington and elsewhere. in fact, the time the u.s. had scant military capability in the region. and it recently begun strategizing about...
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well, america, that someone is now. i am proud to announce that i'm forming an exploratory committee to lay the ground work for the possible candidacy for the president of the united states of south carolina. i'm doing it! [cheering and applause] i'm coordinating with. [cheering and applause] we are taking this country back. thank you. [cheering and applause] god bless you. god bless citizens united. [cheering and applause] now that the results are in, i have a major announcement to make. ly give the other network a moment to break in to the programming to carry the this live. [laughter] that ought to do it. okay. my fellow americans of south carolina, while you're turnout on saturday was historic, unfortunately and no one could have predicted this, headachier did not -- herman cain did not win the south carolina primary. it's with a heavy heart and spazzic colon, i'm rhesus pend -- although i'm here by officially ending my exploratory committee to run for president of the united states of south carolina. i know. i know
well, america, that someone is now. i am proud to announce that i'm forming an exploratory committee to lay the ground work for the possible candidacy for the president of the united states of south carolina. i'm doing it! [cheering and applause] i'm coordinating with. [cheering and applause] we are taking this country back. thank you. [cheering and applause] god bless you. god bless citizens united. [cheering and applause] now that the results are in, i have a major announcement to make. ly...
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he suffers lack person to earn a phd in political science in america from any university. has a masters from harvard as well. he is a flirtation with the left and high dust that rejects them. becomes a u.n. diplomat and presides over truce negotiations between israel -- the new state of israel and its attackers in 1948, 49 and was the nobel peace prize in 1950. the nobel committee w-whiskey not pandering to the united nations, giving it a boost and very keen on saying that the u.n. should be the arbiter of disputes and bunche was the first nonwhite recipient of the nobel peace prize for those keeping score. >> host: he jumped off of the page is a little bit. one prominent in his day, not all remember but worth getting to know again reflecting on that. one of the great things that the book does. >> guest: smart cookie. made mistakes are shared, but a smart cookie and all-american. >> host: talked with arafat rabin border. the summit may even be more controversial. i think you know what they from 1873. >> guest: most controversial know what price of any kind given. >> host:
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-- communities around america. and americans are ready to hear this message. if i can have the slide up, please. thank you. this is what we call the community guide-on model. based on the aspen point and peer navigator model in colorado springs. and they have kindly worked with us to expand it out and make it a bit more generic. mha's goal as of just a few weeks ago is to create a national network of 500 trained and certified peer navigators within three years using this model. the model's comprised of six rings of service, and you can generally consider the inner ring the most important and the outer ring the least important, but all six are very important. all six rings, each of these rings -- now, if you say have you implemented the model and do you have results yet? no, we haven't. but i can tell you that a number of organizations there's at least one organization that has implemented each of these six rings and successfully. the aspen point model is probably the best, but umdmj has a terrific one, university o
-- communities around america. and americans are ready to hear this message. if i can have the slide up, please. thank you. this is what we call the community guide-on model. based on the aspen point and peer navigator model in colorado springs. and they have kindly worked with us to expand it out and make it a bit more generic. mha's goal as of just a few weeks ago is to create a national network of 500 trained and certified peer navigators within three years using this model. the model's...
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i represent the independent insurance agents of america. we like working with the private market firms and are trusted company partners. we would love to sell credit insurance and private flood insurance on the open market. the simple fact is that it doesn't exist. in the 1960s, there was no private flood insurance. this government program was created in order to fill that void. the national flood insurance program has knockout about the private flood insurance market. the private market did not exist. now, there is an arrangement with private insurance carriers that is called write your own program. were the federal government underwrites and backs the flood insurance policies, but they are serviced by these private companies. now, this is done as a way to effectively and efficiently distribute the product. it is really for the benefit of customers. >> host: mr. john prible, you live in a flood prone zones and it has to be labeled as such, you have to purchase flood insurance. is that correct? >> guest: yes, essentially if you had a mortga
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that's not the right answer for america. i will restore the vitality that gets america working again. >> c-span's video hub has videos of last week's debate so you can watch and click by topic. it's the place you can see live behind-the-scenes coverage of each debate including the spin room, watch and engage with political reporters and other viewers and add your own. >>> up next, new york city mayor michael blumberg and british prime minister david cameron yesterday spoke of the conservative party conference in birmingham england. this is just over an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mayor michael bloomberg. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. i will say i have a great position to be speaking between some olympic medal winners and a gold medal prime minister. [applause] now, sebastian my hope is still here. i wasn't thrilled the last time i saw sebastian in singapore when he led the london bid over new york. [laughter] but i will say that he and the people of great britain and london deserv
that's not the right answer for america. i will restore the vitality that gets america working again. >> c-span's video hub has videos of last week's debate so you can watch and click by topic. it's the place you can see live behind-the-scenes coverage of each debate including the spin room, watch and engage with political reporters and other viewers and add your own. >>> up next, new york city mayor michael blumberg and british prime minister david cameron yesterday spoke of the...
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he airily said that it is not like in south america or a rock where we can control. he thought the whole thing would go south. when you hear that, you think that they would reconsider the two. i think lodge, as he said, having been the existential running mate of nixon, he was complementary in his own right. he set things right the way he wanted to do it. c-span: how long had he been there when the coup took place? >> just a few weeks. jfk ruefully noted that once as a reporter on a trip. c-span: whose idea was it to make him ambassador of vietnam from the united states? >> guest: it was john f. kennedy's idea to have him be the ambassador to reply on 10. c-span: would john f. kennedy have gotten out of vietnam and he had been reelected? >> strangely enough, my file there thought that rfk and his behavior, even though he was on the campaign and saying we were going to get out of vietnam, it was a moral -- he thought that robert kennedy was someone he could work with that would get out of vietnam gradually. i think he thought that robert kennedy would never approve se
he airily said that it is not like in south america or a rock where we can control. he thought the whole thing would go south. when you hear that, you think that they would reconsider the two. i think lodge, as he said, having been the existential running mate of nixon, he was complementary in his own right. he set things right the way he wanted to do it. c-span: how long had he been there when the coup took place? >> just a few weeks. jfk ruefully noted that once as a reporter on a trip....
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this is a book about america that begins in china. in september 2010 i attended the summer conference in tangi and china. five years earlier it involved the three and a half hour car ride from beijing to a crowded chinese version of detroit but things have change. now to get to jen jen you head to the south railway station and a roof covered with 3246 solar panels. you buy a ticket from an electronic kiosk offering choices and chinese and english and you board a world-class high-speed train that goes right to another room a modern train station in downtown chang chen. the chinese bullet train cover 72 miles in 29 minutes. the conference itself took place in it 10 jen convention center a beautiful structure the like of which exist in american cities. the conference as co-sponsors gave some helpful facts and figures. they said the convention center had a total floor area of 2.5 million square feet and construction of the convention center started on september 15 2009 and was completed in may 2010. i started walking around my hotel room
this is a book about america that begins in china. in september 2010 i attended the summer conference in tangi and china. five years earlier it involved the three and a half hour car ride from beijing to a crowded chinese version of detroit but things have change. now to get to jen jen you head to the south railway station and a roof covered with 3246 solar panels. you buy a ticket from an electronic kiosk offering choices and chinese and english and you board a world-class high-speed train...
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plane to take him back to america. his arm is gone by then. and he's told we don't have room for another litter, another patient on the airplane. you can't go. so, of course, is disappointed. the plane crashed and killed everybody on the plane. so dan inouye was a person who considered himself lucky. those of us who knew senator inouye consider ourselves lucky just being able to know the man. after hawaii received its statehood in 1959, dan inouye served as the state's first congressman. three years later, he was elected to the senate and he's been a soft but powerful voice for the people of hawaii ever since. the many personal courtesies he's extended me i will never forget. may not seem like much but i had something where i was scheduled to be in florida, and i had promoted this, the great -- i was a new senator, the great senator inouye was going to be there. and i got a call from henne juni, used to be the sergeant at arms, for a long time senator inouye's chief of staff. he said i've checked his schedule, it's his
plane to take him back to america. his arm is gone by then. and he's told we don't have room for another litter, another patient on the airplane. you can't go. so, of course, is disappointed. the plane crashed and killed everybody on the plane. so dan inouye was a person who considered himself lucky. those of us who knew senator inouye consider ourselves lucky just being able to know the man. after hawaii received its statehood in 1959, dan inouye served as the state's first congressman. three...
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my name is richard brennan, executive director of the home care of america. an affiliate of the national association for home care and hospice. so i think someone, i will give credit maybe to janet, as far as health happens outside the clinic, maybe one of the things i heard on the panel that came out today. one of things that we're trying to do is off-line with a group of providers who provide incidents for electronic health records along with acute care, those providers with non-acute-care and post acute care providers. and so we've identified is this a huge need to try to make sure that we have alignment across the spectrum of care. i've been working in that regard under the sni framer, a committee led an initiative to create a longitudinal care plan. and i would come apart my question is informational just make sure you're looking at model, the home health plan care, our case is just developed with a framework and we'll go through each. that we plan on using and hoping to use across a platform of care providers, in other words, physicians, partnership wit
my name is richard brennan, executive director of the home care of america. an affiliate of the national association for home care and hospice. so i think someone, i will give credit maybe to janet, as far as health happens outside the clinic, maybe one of the things i heard on the panel that came out today. one of things that we're trying to do is off-line with a group of providers who provide incidents for electronic health records along with acute care, those providers with non-acute-care...
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also well known for his cartooning of dogs and his career at the new yorker he blossomed into one of america's great writers. i would like to move throughout the house and tell the stories about the family as we see the house. this room has a great history, too because we know that the father of the three boys had a lot to put up with. they had over $50 not all at one time. one poor boy almost fainted when they thought that was was true. this is when charles would retire and close off the doors and put himself in isolation. and the blaze and the dogs knew this. let me read a great quote about charles. he wasn't a striking man, never accomplished great things within himself he had a book called the fer were all the land rights a chapter about some people that have a big impact on his life and this isn't a long quote. he was played by the mechanical rights. he was also plagued by the manufacturer, which takes in a great deal more ground. the bonds rose in touch. adores stock. the detachable wouldn't be attached. the adjustable wouldn't adjust. he could really get all of anything and was forever
also well known for his cartooning of dogs and his career at the new yorker he blossomed into one of america's great writers. i would like to move throughout the house and tell the stories about the family as we see the house. this room has a great history, too because we know that the father of the three boys had a lot to put up with. they had over $50 not all at one time. one poor boy almost fainted when they thought that was was true. this is when charles would retire and close off the doors...
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their nation and prove their love and become legal in america, become citizens in america. and he took the floor, and i want to read what he said because it touched me. he said: madam president, i wish to step back in history if i may. on december 7, 1941, something terrible happened in hawaiile three weeks later the government hoff the united states declared that all japanese americans, citizens born in the united states or of japanese ancestry were to be considered enemy aliens, at a result, like these undocumented people, they could not put on the uniform of this lan. senator inouye went on to say, i was 17 at the time and naturally i resented this because i loved my country and wanted to put on the uniform to show where my heart stood. but we were denied. so we petitioned the government. the a year later they said, okay. i if you wish to volunteer, go ahead. senator inouye said, well to make a long story short, the rem meant i serve in, made up of 0 japanese americans had the highest casualsed in europe and the most tech crated in the history of the ute. then he turned
their nation and prove their love and become legal in america, become citizens in america. and he took the floor, and i want to read what he said because it touched me. he said: madam president, i wish to step back in history if i may. on december 7, 1941, something terrible happened in hawaiile three weeks later the government hoff the united states declared that all japanese americans, citizens born in the united states or of japanese ancestry were to be considered enemy aliens, at a result,...
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how we start our day in america. if there is one thing i have learned strolling around the world is that successful companies, successful cities command successful countries start their day every day with a very simple question is, what world in my living in. what world my living in? the biggest trends in this world, the policies i need to put in place to take advantage of those trends, and to nurture all of the potential from them. that is not how we start our day in this country. restart our day in this country with their two biggest parties taking a large crowbar and asking how they can stick it in the wheel of the other party in order to win the 24 hour news cycle. part of doing the research for this book are visited singapore. something and economists said to me that start in my mind. we live in a past up with no doors and no windows. every change in the direction of the wind. every change in temperature. living in a brick house with central heating. you seem to feel nothing. that house is developing some cracks
how we start our day in america. if there is one thing i have learned strolling around the world is that successful companies, successful cities command successful countries start their day every day with a very simple question is, what world in my living in. what world my living in? the biggest trends in this world, the policies i need to put in place to take advantage of those trends, and to nurture all of the potential from them. that is not how we start our day in this country. restart our...
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i belief we will have a welcoming asia that wants a stronger engaged america. that's the biggest difference from my tenure to the tenure of these gentlemen. in the past there was often ambivalence about the united states. no longer. everyone in asia once more of the united states. and our job will be to see if we have the wisdom to sustain a very high level operating engagement that involves not just china, which will be at the center of much of what we do, but also the other nations of asia, japan, south korea, all of aussie on. that's a critical part of our engagement strategy. australia, new zealand as chris indicated, and a rising india. >> can i jump in your? mention the architects for years ago. scolding them. don't include me in that group. because i agree with exactly with the approach you just outlined. is typical rebalancing to in asia that this administration has done i think they successfully, there are three myths that relate to what you were just talking. one myth is that started in 2011. another myth, it's essentially military, and spreading to a
i belief we will have a welcoming asia that wants a stronger engaged america. that's the biggest difference from my tenure to the tenure of these gentlemen. in the past there was often ambivalence about the united states. no longer. everyone in asia once more of the united states. and our job will be to see if we have the wisdom to sustain a very high level operating engagement that involves not just china, which will be at the center of much of what we do, but also the other nations of asia,...
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innovative and showed america as an innovative country. that used books and stories to inspire going to the frontier and that could be literally or intellectually. if you'd like to participate in online discussion with roberta schaefer, associate librarian at the library of congress, one that we will then air on booktv, we would like to hear from you. e-mail us at booktv at c-span are untransformed. >> said on c-span2, white house adviser john brennan talks about u.s. counterterrorism efforts in yemen. former federal prosecutor andrew mccarthy accuses a state department official of having ties to the muslim brotherhood. and the head of the tsa discusses airline security at the meeting of the airline pilots association. >> president obama's counterterrorism adviser, john brennan, defended the use of joan attacks in yemen, saying that al qaeda affiliated militants in the country remain a threat to the united states. remarks at the council of foreign relations, mr. john brennan also did not rule out u.s. involvement in syria, and called on co
innovative and showed america as an innovative country. that used books and stories to inspire going to the frontier and that could be literally or intellectually. if you'd like to participate in online discussion with roberta schaefer, associate librarian at the library of congress, one that we will then air on booktv, we would like to hear from you. e-mail us at booktv at c-span are untransformed. >> said on c-span2, white house adviser john brennan talks about u.s. counterterrorism...
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he was in a silver opal, opal were apparently cars that everyone in iraq drives and no one in america knows about. but again, the suspicion was raised when i realized the back of the car was a little lower to the ground than the front. and given the rules of engagement, you can't just shoot someone because they looked suspicious. well, sir, scott, why did you shoot him? well, i got scared. you got scared? so you killed a man? well, yeah, sir. like, i have a gun. like, you can't do that. and given the rules of engagement, you can't just shoot someone unless you know they have the weapon, you know they're aiming, or you know that they've been -- they've killed someone or they're in, i should say, they're in the action. so given the rules of engagement, i couldn't just shoot someone that looked suspicious. so i knew the best thing to do was to yell at him to get out of his car. so as i did, i was looking over my left shoulder kind of facing him. i was in the lead stryker vehicle, had metal basically up to my neck, i was inside the stryker standing up. i still had my m-4, my oakley m fram
he was in a silver opal, opal were apparently cars that everyone in iraq drives and no one in america knows about. but again, the suspicion was raised when i realized the back of the car was a little lower to the ground than the front. and given the rules of engagement, you can't just shoot someone because they looked suspicious. well, sir, scott, why did you shoot him? well, i got scared. you got scared? so you killed a man? well, yeah, sir. like, i have a gun. like, you can't do that. and...
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and finally, let me say, we need a fresh trade policy for the americas. we now have trade agreements with six countries that were part of the dominican republi republic/cafta agreement. and we have a trade preferences agreement with haiti, but we really need to look to see what we can do to trade in this hemisphere, improve our economic relationship with the south american giant country and giant economy of brazil. your best trading partners, mr. president, should be your neighbors. certainly canada and mexico have proved that. when we send canada $1, they traditionally send us back somewhere in the neighborhood of $1. right now it's about 91 cents. our trade with mexico -- mexico now sends us back -- or at least a year ago shall, and this number continues to negotiation, but was sending back 75 cents. that's why on the energy front when you deal with them, it makes a ditches sms so they have proven that your neighbor should be your best trading partners. the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. blunt: 30 seconds? the presiding officer:
and finally, let me say, we need a fresh trade policy for the americas. we now have trade agreements with six countries that were part of the dominican republi republic/cafta agreement. and we have a trade preferences agreement with haiti, but we really need to look to see what we can do to trade in this hemisphere, improve our economic relationship with the south american giant country and giant economy of brazil. your best trading partners, mr. president, should be your neighbors. certainly...